The media in the United States employs public opinion polls to determine what the consensus on policy is, who is qualified to be elected to public office, and in other forms to herd the citizens into information cages and thereby create artificial consensus for approaches and policies that are overwhelmingly opposed.
Public opinion polls should not be employed in the discussion of policy in the Congress, in government, in think tanks and universities, or in journalism.
There is one place, and only one place, where public opinion is critical and that is in elections. We need elections in which all citizens are allowed to vote and in which the votes are tallied in a transparent manner by fully accountable government institutions that have no profit motive and no connections to for-profit organizations.
Other public opinion services are part of a horrific anti-democratic scam.
The organizations that conduct polls, Gallup Poll, Harris Insights & Analytics, Elway Research, and others are for-profit organizations and they serve corporate clients.
I have never been polled in my life on any topic, and few of my friends have been. It is a well-known fact that the pollsters offer only corporate friendly options to those whom they chose to interview (the most passive and gullible who are carefully selected). They force those responding to polls, carefully selected so as to exclude citizens who do not accept the false consensus promoted by corporations in the United States, to chose between fixed choices and they do not offer alternatives, or an opportunity to present facts.
The result is 1) those polled are selected to support the public relations needs of the corporations and private institutions that pay for the polls directly and indirectly; 2) the questions asked force impossible choices on those polled and leave no room for citizens to offer their own opinions; thus they do not reflect the true opinions of citizens; 3) in that public opinion is reflected in polls, that public opinion is based on the distorted propaganda that is promoted by the media run by multinational corporations. We have no need to tell people that they support policies based on misinformation. We need to present the citizens with scientific facts; 4) public opinion polling is employed in an illegal and unconstitutional manner to disqualify people from running for office, or to dismiss calls for revolutionary change that have massive support because such topics are treated by the corporations conducting polls as forbidden topics that cannot be addressed.
Rigged up polling is anti-democratic and serves as the basis for corporate fascism in the United States. The polls purposely cover up the actual administration of the United States by a military government today. They are employed to guide citizens away from real solutions, away from polies that reject an economy based on the needs of Wall Street and a foreign policy based on the drive for war in the Pentagon. This systematic deception of the American people through the creation and promotion of false consensus through “polls” has destroyed the basic democratic rights of the citizens and must end.
I really think that a better idea is an armed revolution in the USA and a guerrilla army. There is a theory by guerrilla-marxism that claims that countries where elections are corrupt and where there is not an organized left, the only solution is a guerrilla army with the intention of violently overthrowing the capitalist government
did you know pollsters are the same people running the US census, and CDC data, which means you rely on them for what amounts to "all cause" mortality , so how do you think that turns out?
I really think that a better idea is an armed revolution in the USA and a guerrilla army. There is a theory by guerrilla-marxism that claims that countries where elections are corrupt and where there is not an organized left, the only solution is a guerrilla army with the intention of violently overthrowing the capitalist government
did you know pollsters are the same people running the US census, and CDC data, which means you rely on them for what amounts to "all cause" mortality , so how do you think that turns out?